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HANSARDPublic Health Restrictions: Government Economic SupportMy Lords, I will look at that evidence. On the Culture Recovery Fund, the first tranche of funding has just been announced. There will be more to come. Noble Lords are interested…15 Oct 2020HANSARDPublic Health Restrictions: Government Economic SupportMy Lords, that is exactly what the Government are trying to do with the new Job Support Scheme. Where people are unable to work due to their workplace being closed or need to work…15 Oct 2020HANSARDPublic Health Restrictions: Government Economic SupportMy Lords, as I explained to the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, the support to people’s incomes does not come only from the Job Support Scheme; for those on low incomes, universal…15 Oct 2020HANSARDPublic Health Restrictions: Government Economic SupportMy Lords, the financial support that the Government provide to businesses is not limited to those in tier 3. We have the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund for those in the arts…15 Oct 2020HANSARDPublic Health Restrictions: Government Economic SupportMy Lords, I watched the Urgent Question in the other place and do not agree with the noble Lord’s assessment of the answers given, but I will do my best to supplement them. It is…15 Oct 2020HANSARDPublic Health Restrictions: Government Economic SupportMy Lords, in international comparisons, the UK is around the average for these kinds of support schemes. There are some schemes, like those in Germany, in which support goes up…15 Oct 2020HANSARDPublic Health Restrictions: Government Economic SupportMy Lords, as I said earlier to the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, the Government’s approach is all about trying to find a balance. I acknowledge that the 10 pm curfew has caused…15 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesMy Lords, the Government take the issue extremely seriously. A number of different factors feed into this. On the vulnerability of people from black and minority-ethnic…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesMy Lords, when designing the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and its next steps, the Government undertook an analysis of how the policies were likely to affect individuals…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesMy Lords, people from a minority ethnic background can be more vulnerable to unemployment than those from a white background, although rates vary considerably by ethnicity. The…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesMy Lords, it is because the Government completely understand that some of the most vulnerable in our society might be hit hardest by this pandemic in terms of both their health…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesWell, what I am trying to say to noble Lords is that the Government have been aware of this fact since the beginning of the crisis and it has informed our response so far—so,…12 Oct 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place and on Public Transport) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020The noble Baroness might be on mute, so she could try unmuting herself.12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesMy Lords, as noble Lords have noted, it is often those in BAME communities who are most vulnerable to unemployment, or to seeing a loss or change to their income during the…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesMy Lords, that is one of the lessons that we have learned in our response to the pandemic so far. As we have had to work with local authorities to impose further local measures,…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesMy Lords, there are two things I have referred to that help answer the noble Lord’s question. The first is the assessment of our policy approaches under the public sector equality…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesI agree with the noble Lord, who has raised the question of mass testing a number of times in this Chamber. The Government are working as hard as they can to make progress. As for…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesMy Lords, of course the Government want to move forward from that approach. That is why we have invested so much in the development of vaccines and why we are working on improving…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: BAME CommunitiesMy Lords, the Government have taken a number of measures to support employment for people from minority-ethnic backgrounds, partly as a result of the race disparity audit and the…12 Oct 2020HANSARDNHS: GP VacanciesAs I said to noble Lords before, one of the initiatives the Government are undertaking is providing extra funding to doctors to train in those hard-to-recruit areas, to increase…08 Oct 2020